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- Early-bird shoppers flock to pre-Christmas sales
- November 26, 2004
- (Updated Friday at 11:32 a.m.) Target wasn’t slated to open until 6 a.m. today. But that didn’t keep people from lining up outside in preparation of holiday and personal shopping sprees.
- Weather cooperating for shoppers
- November 26, 2004
- (Updated Friday at 8:09 a.m.) If you’ve got a lot of Christmas shopping to do today, the weather will cooperate — today’s high temperature will be 57 under mostly cloudy skies.
- ‘Terminal’ becomes a phony layover
- November 26, 2004
- It’s funny how Tom Hanks’ latest effort, “The Polar Express,” is mainly about traveling, whereas “The Terminal” involves the inability to go anywhere.
- ‘Christmas with the Kranks’ a lump of coal for holidays
- November 26, 2004
- Skip Christmas? Miss all that expense, all that work, decorating, cooking, shopping and wrapping? Dodge all that forced good cheer, bonhomie, brotherly love? Where do we sign up?
- ‘20/20’ to revisit shocking hate crime
- November 26, 2004
- Six years ago, the murder of Matthew Shepard shocked the nation and became a rallying cry for those fed up with violence against gay Americans. “20/20” (9 p.m., ABC) revisits the Shepard case and reveals little-known facts that may challenge some of the myths about the case popularized by the play and HBO TV movie “The Laramie Project.”
- Special education overhaul causes stir
- November 26, 2004
- Advocates for the disabled are berating and education officials are defending some new standards for educating disabled children that Congress passed earlier this month.
- Home might be a little too sweet for Jayhawks
- November 26, 2004
- Frequent fliers their first three years in school, Kansas University’s senior men’s basketball players have been grounded in Year Four. The 2004-05 schedule has the Jayhawks making their first regular-season out-of-town trip Jan. 9.
- Longhorns’ ‘hex’ holding strong
- November 26, 2004
- Every year before the annual Texas-Texas A&M game, Longhorns students, players and coaches gather for the campus ‘Hex Rally’ to put the voodoo on the Aggies.
- Late payment may affect other credit cards
- November 26, 2004
- One late payment on your credit card can pack a pretty hard punch. Not only with fees and rate increases on the card in question, but also with penalties on your other credit cards.
- Against the ban
- November 26, 2004
- Cowboys turn to Testaverde in 21-7 win over Bears
- November 26, 2004
- Bill Parcells wants to develop Drew Henson into an NFL quarterback and he wants to win games. If he has to pick one, he’ll take winning every time.
- Huskies hold off Utes, 78-71
- November 26, 2004
- Nate Robinson scored 19 of his 29 points in the first half, and No. 22 Washington held off Utah for a 78-71 victory Thursday night in the quarterfinals of the Great Alaska Shootout.
- Horoscopes
- November 26, 2004
- Lawrence native collaborates with country star
- November 26, 2004
- After Darran Smith left the Lawrence area in 1983, he played steady gigs in Nashville and worked days as a warehouse manager and delivery courier. Then, in 1989, an up-and-coming singer named Tim asked him to go to Delaware for a two-week job at Sheryl’s Sky Lounge in New Castle.
- Retailers integrating Internet, onsite offerings
- Companies use Web sites to attract shoppers to brick-and-mortar stores
- November 26, 2004
- This holiday season, shoppers will find there’s more to buying online than punching in your credit-card number and waiting for that new sweater to land on your doorstep.
- Deciding whether to sell, buy is tough
- November 26, 2004
- Selling an investment is tough. We hate to part with our beloved winners, hoping they’ll keep going up. And dumping a loser means admitting you made a mistake. Psychologically, it’s easier to wait for a rebound.
- Manning’s TD-pass total reaches 41 for season
- Colts quarterback throws for six touchdowns in 41-9 victory over Lions
- November 26, 2004
- Peyton Manning barks and gestures at the line of scrimmage, adjusting to defenses and changing play calls. It might seem like chaos, but he’s in complete control. Blitzing linebackers or disguised coverages don’t faze him.
- Parades, games ‘place to be’ for Thanksgiving
- November 26, 2004
- Despite 30-degree temperatures and biting wind, Carl Williams was up at sunrise Thursday to prepare turkey legs, bratwurst and hot dogs on an outdoor grill in Detroit before the city’s annual Thanksgiving Day parade.
- Calendar
- November 26, 2004
- Markets closed
- November 26, 2004
- Financial and commodities markets are closed today in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. They are scheduled to reopen Friday for a brief session of trading.
- Ivory Coast action lauded
- November 26, 2004
- American diplomacy is seen as an oxymoron these days by many Europeans, particularly the French. That makes the effective work of the Bush administration in limiting the poisonous fall-out of anti-French turmoil in Ivory Coast all the more remarkable and salutary.
- Corset a factor in JFK death
- November 26, 2004
- Two years ago, historian Robert Dallek revealed new details about the extraordinary range of shots, stimulants and pills President Kennedy took to control his physical pain and present his youthful image to the world.
- Wacky mind games
- Comedians ponder the dividends and dangers of improvisation
- November 26, 2004
- It’s all a sham. At least that is the most common complaint about Colin Mochrie and his cohorts who have popularized improvisational comedy through the TV series “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”
- Koufax trades in playboy lifestyle for ‘domesticated’ living in Lawrence
- November 26, 2004
- It’s a cold winter day in New Jersey, and the new Koufax lineup is navigating its way through the state’s labyrinth of interstates and missed exits. The band is heading home after a show at The Mercury Lounge in New York.
- This Weekend’s Highlights
- November 26, 2004
- ¢ Slick 57 ¢ Joseph Arthur ¢ Holiday Arts Show
- ‘Seinfeld’ DVD gets something from nothing
- November 26, 2004
- Talk about much ado about nothing! Columbia TriStar has done a bang-up job with the DVD sets of the first three seasons of “Seinfeld,” the Emmy Award-winning NBC sitcom of the 1990s. Not only have the episodes been digitally remastered, there also are numerous commentaries, outtakes, deleted scenes, promos and documentaries on each set.
- Best Bets
- November 26, 2004
- Arts Notes
- November 26, 2004
- ¢ Van Go artists offer holiday adornments ¢ Symphonic Band to perform diverse works
- Makers master method
- Hutchinson company produces 75,000 milk containers a day
- November 26, 2004
- It begins with millions of tiny opaque beads of plastic, about half the size of an aspirin, stored in a silo at Consolidated Container in Hutchinson. After going through complex modifications, collectively known as extrusion blow molding, those beads end up in Kansans’ refrigerators as gallon-sized containers of fresh, cold milk.
- Briefcase
- November 26, 2004
- ¢ Cell phone technology taking off in Japan ¢ Workplace e-mails can send wrong message
- Ego trumps shame
- The tide of public opinion may be turning against the dishonorable habits of America’s rich and famous
- November 26, 2004
- “People that don’t understand finance might not understand,” billionaire Donald Trump said in announcing his decision to file bankruptcy at his New Jersey casino. But “for intelligent people,” he added, the restructuring “enhances the (Trump) brand.”
- U.S. was right
- November 26, 2004
- Caregivers
- November 26, 2004
- Other terrorism
- November 26, 2004
- South defense
- November 26, 2004
- Toy safety a serious concern
- November 26, 2004
- Karen McMackin spent part of Wednesday shopping for Christmas gifts for her 4-year-old daughter, Jill. McMackin, of McLouth, and her daughter Pammie Conchola, 15, took their time eyeing toys at The Toy Store, 841 Mass., that would be safe for McMackin’s youngest daughter.
- How to survive the holidays
- (without getting fat and grumpy)
- November 26, 2004
- It’s official. With the unlocking of stores this morning for the post-Thanksgiving rush, the Christmas season is here. Time for festive fatness and shopping stress. According to one recent survey, 52 percent of women and 40 percent of men report their stress level rises during the holidays. And many Americans do gain weight during the holidays, though a recent study showed the average gain was only 1.4 pounds.
- Iraq Sunnis push to delay election
- Al-Zarqawi lieutenant captured; massive weapons cache found
- November 26, 2004
- Leading Sunni Muslim politicians Thursday urged postponement of the Jan. 30 national elections, and a lieutenant of Iraq’s most feared insurgent leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was captured this week, the country’s national security minister said Thursday.
- KU research reveals early trouble for buffalo
- Bison nearly extinct long before Europeans came
- November 26, 2004
- The state animal of Kansas was almost exterminated long before white settlers came to the Plains and had their try at it. The bison, a longtime staple for American Indian tribes of the Great Plains, nearly went extinct 20,000 years ago, according to new research published by a Kansas University paleontologist.
- Community meals are filling on many levels
- Volunteers, diners alike come away satisfied
- November 26, 2004
- Terrence Savage was thankful to have a Thanksgiving feast to eat with friends. And he was thankful for the nearly 500 volunteers who made Lawrence’s annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner possible.
- Baker student doubly thankful
- Andy Potts survived two crashes in which other people died
- November 26, 2004
- After surviving two accidents this year that left other people dead, Andy Potts is giving thanks that he’s alive. Potts, a 21-year-old Baker University student, is bedridden because of injuries he suffered in the second accident, but he’s not complaining.
- Local briefs
- November 26, 2004
- ¢ Injury accident reported on turnpike ¢ Haskell acknowledges congressional funds ¢ Youth art sale planned this weekend ¢ Area students to compete in High Q ¢ Economics professor wins teaching prize ¢ High school thespians collect tons of food ¢ Pulitzer winner to speak at KU
- K.C.K. shooter convicted in deaths
- November 26, 2004
- A man was convicted Wednesday evening of killing five people in a spree that began as retaliation for the robbery and beating of his mother.
- Uncle: Charged Fort Riley soldier did not see killing
- November 26, 2004
- The uncle of an Army officer charged with murder in the shooting of a severely injured 16-year-old Iraqi says his nephew didn’t even see the shots being fired. A criminal investigator has said soldiers decided to shoot the Iraqi to put him “out of his misery.”
- K.C. peace activist sentenced to more than four years in prison
- November 26, 2004
- A peace activist who claims the laws of the United States are “weapons of mass destruction” has promised to strike again, inviting the judge who sentenced her to prison for her latest protest to come along and watch.
- Abstinence education a Bush priority
- November 26, 2004
- President Bush’s re-election ensures that more federal money will flow to abstinence education that precludes discussion of birth control, even as the administration awaits evidence that the approach gets kids to refrain from sex.
- Users beware: Internet-style viruses starting to infect cell phones
- November 26, 2004
- Early this month, several Web sites began offering software promising ringtones and screensavers for certain cell phones. But those who downloaded the software found that it turned every icon on their cell phones’ screens into a skull and crossbones and disabled their phones, so they could no longer send text messages or access calendars.
- Briefly
- November 26, 2004
- ¢ City plans eBay auction as fund-raiser ¢ Study: Corporate PACs favor Republicans ¢ Food imports may soon match exports ¢ Jailed Palestinian leader to seek Arafat’s job ¢ Iran wants centrifuges exempted from pact ¢ EU, Russia fail to clinch partnership accord ¢ Genital mutilation issue in Europe, activist says ¢ U.N. agency suspends most food aid deliver ¢ Nine slain in Cancun
- Troops in Iraq give thanks
- November 26, 2004
- Lt. Sven Jensen’s U.S. Marines unit survived for weeks on military rations while living rough in Iraq’s Fallujah, so he wrangled a truck Thursday and drove his men to the rear for a rare treat: Thanksgiving turkey and cranberry sauce.
- Ukraine court blocks election results
- November 26, 2004
- The Supreme Court temporarily blocked publication of disputed presidential election results naming Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych the winner Thursday, bolstering demands by pro-Western contender Viktor Yushchenko’s supporters that he be recognized as president-elect instead.
- Texas trips Vols again
- November 26, 2004
- Texas owns Tennessee right now. Tiffany Jackson scored 19 points and had a career-high eight blocks as No. 4 Texas knocked off No. 1 Tennessee, 74-59, Thursday night, the Longhorns’ fourth straight win over the Vols.
- Ex-Trojan Stewart comfortable with Kansas
- November 26, 2004
- Like many holiday travelers this week, Rodrick Stewart battled severe problems in trying to return to his hometown for Thanksgiving. Stewart, however, wasn’t stressed at all Wednesday when his flight from Kansas City International to Seattle was canceled twice because of snow storms throughout the United States.
- Gruber first KU swimmer selected for national weekly award
- November 26, 2004
- Kansas University swimmer Amy Gruber has been tapped for two prestigious awards.
- Lawrence Datebook
- November 26, 2004
- On the record
- November 26, 2004
- E. Marie Carlson
- November 26, 2004
- Byron Thomas Lynn
- November 26, 2004
- Teresa Anderson Griffin
- November 26, 2004
- Area briefs
- November 26, 2004
- ¢ Fleeing motorist causes fatal crash, officers say ¢ Fort Riley soldier won’t fight extradition
- QB Palko carries Pitt to win
- November 26, 2004
- Pitt quarterback Tyler Palko found himself down late in the game against a favored opponent for the second game in a row. Just as he got it done against Notre Dame, he got it done against West Virginia.
- Iowa State still wary of MU QB
- With Big 12 North on line, Cyclones key on Tigers’ Smith
- November 26, 2004
- He began the season as a serious contender for the Heisman Trophy. He was fast, elusive and had a strong arm — everything you’d want in a quarterback. So whatever happened to Brad Smith anyway?
- Huskers need win today to go bowling
- November 26, 2004
- To say the Nebraska football team’s seniors have seen some change the last four years would be an understatement.
- Grizzlies coach retires
- Brown leaves Memphis 12 games into NBA season
- November 26, 2004
- Hubie Brown retired as coach of the Memphis Grizzlies on Thursday because of health reasons.
- Classless fans can push athletes too far
- November 26, 2004
- You are at work. You get into an argument with a co-worker, and you are sitting at your desk trying to cool off. Suddenly, somebody starts cursing you, calling you names and throws a cup of coffee in your face. Are you going to keep your composure, or are you going to pummel the miserable maggot?
- Author Arthur Hailey dies
- November 26, 2004
- Arthur Hailey, author of “Airport,” “Hotel” and other novels that became hit movies, has died, his wife said Thursday. He was 84.
- People
- November 26, 2004
- ¢ Misunderstood ¢ Coming up for air ¢ Survey blasts ‘Baywatch’ ¢ Sounds greek to us ¢ Birthday: Tina Turner
- Timing of disclosure of CIA employee’s name critical in probe
- November 26, 2004
- A federal prosecutor investigating whether administration officials illegally leaked the name of an undercover CIA operative has directed considerable effort at learning how widely the operative’s identity was disseminated to reporters before it was published last year by columnist Robert Novak, according to people with knowledge of the case.
- Tinsley helps Pacers find way to win again
- November 26, 2004
- Another improbable victory has the Indiana Pacers brimming with confidence. “Things aren’t looking as bad for us as it was four days ago,” forward Austin Croshere said. Indiana has Jamaal Tinsley to thank for that.
- 11 children killed by toys last year
- November 26, 2004
- The 11 deaths and more than 200,000 toy-related injuries in 2003 show that not all toys on the market are safe, nor are they all tested, said Lindsey Johnson, a consumer advocate for U.S. Public Interest Research Group’s Education Fund.
- The long road back
- Ottawa lineman Blakesley finds blessing from knee injury
- November 26, 2004
- Caleb Blakesley has seen the videotape a hundred times, and each glance at the way it all came about makes him shake his head in disbelief. “It was stupid,” he says.
- Federal technology funding resumes
- Lawrence schools expect to receive share of money
- November 26, 2004
- The federal program that helps link schools and libraries to the Internet has resumed spending after a cash-flow crunch that delayed more than $400 million in projects.
- GOP House conservatives buck Bush
- November 26, 2004
- At 4:30 last Saturday afternoon, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert took the floor for one of his rare addresses, this one a flattering summary of the accomplishments of this session of Congress.
- 6Sports video: Scholar Athlete of the Month
- November 26, 2004
- Tonganoxie High School senior Addie Heim is this month’s High School Scholar Athlete.
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